Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force, and they had established at least three companies of their own:1) the Bridgeton (Maine) Playmakers, who brashly announced that they would have a Broadway hit this fall -Take a Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin Productions, most surprising-and-most commercial-of the three...
...summer theaters have any loftier aim than to make some money, despite inflated operating costs.*Ninetenths of the scheduled shows are old Broadway hits. About 25 companies plan to try out new plays-originally one of the big purposes of summer theater groups...
...last week's Greenwich (Conn.) Theater run, Tallulah Bankhead got a cool $2,500; first-night orchestra seats at $4.80 per helped pay the freight...
Hollywood's major moviemakers finally got shoved through the antitrust grinder-but they came out whole. Last week, eight years after the Department of Justice filed suit, a special Manhattan Federal Court denied a Government demand that the big producers be divested of their theater holdings* in order to end monopolistic practices in the distribution of films...
...give way to the auction setup in which any exhibitor could freely bid for any new films. Moreover, the exhibitor would not have to buy in blocks-i.e., take three bad films to get one good one. But the court felt that forcing the producers to sell their theaters was too drastic, and would only "create a new set of theater owners . . . quite unlikely for some years to give the public as good service as [the defendants...